Del Shores' new film

SOUTHERN BAPTIST SISSIES

Southern Baptist Sissies is a film of the theatrical experience of writer/director Del Shores' GLAAD Award-winning play. This unique hybrid film is for those who love theatre and film. Sissies is the story of four boys growing up in the Southern Baptist church in Dallas who are gay and how the deal with the conflict between the caustic rhetoric of dogmatic religion and the fragile development of their adolescent sexuality. The intimate experience of theatre on the film screen reveals the complicated emotions from all sides - the confused child, the struggling adolescent and the angry and damaged adult.

The film stars Dallas native/COLUMN subscriber/COLUMN AWARD WINNER Emerson Collins (BRAVO's "The People's Couch"), Emmy winner Leslie Jordan, Dale Dickey ("True Blood"), Willam Belli ("RuPaul's Drag Race"), Bobbie Eakes ("All My Children") and from Sordid Lives, Rosemary Alexander, Newell Alexander and Ann Walker.

Southern Baptist Sissies is screening at the Texas Theatre at 231 W. Jefferson Blvd in Oak Cliff April 17-18 at 7 p.m. and April 19 at 2:30 p.m. Emerson Collins and Del Shores will do Q&As after all three screenings with special guests Willam Belli Thursday, April 17 and Leslie Jordan Friday, April 18. $10 tickets and information available at http://www.thetexastheatre.com/ You can see the trailer here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo0k66jXVGI

To purchase advance tickets:
https://www.movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?movie_id=168896&house_id=26144&showdate=24
**You have to click the link, then change the date in the drop down menu, then click on the time to get to the ticket purchase page.